Translations Overview

HealthActCHQ's survey translation process is extremely rigorous and exceeds published international outcomes industry standards. By contracting with a single international translation organization for many years, the Company has maintained standardization in the translation process for all of HealthActCHQ's surveys.

New translations are exclusively undertaken by the scientific staff of HACHQ and require the financial support of the requesting organization.

The comprehensive translation process includes:

Two experienced, in-country experts who are native speakers for the target language and bilingual in English conduct each translation. These translators are male and female-balanced and child-balanced, as appropriate.

A harmonized and reconciled forward translation is created from these independent translations.

The back translation is evaluated using an experienced native English speaker who is bilingual in the target language.